Kaya Genç

“The Old Turkey is behind us, and its doors are now closed”, said Recep Tayyip Erdogan this summer, standing before a banner that read, “On the Road to the New Turkey”. A month later he was president. But what now? Kaya Genç wonders if in fact two countries continue to live alongside one another.

is an Istanbul-based novelist, translator and critic. His writing has appeared in The Paris Review, The Believer, The Guardian, The Financial Times, The London Review of Books, Salon, Guernica Magazine